Hijacked journals: Tips for young researchers, to detect and avoid them

Hussein Abid; Emad Yousif

doi:10.47419/bjbabs.v3i04.179

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Hussein A. Abid Department of Scientific Affairs and Cultural Relations, Al-Nahrain University, Jadiriyah, Baghdad, Iraq
Emad A. Yousif Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad 64021, Iraq

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https://doi.org/10.47419/bjbabs.v3i04.179

Keywords:

detection, hijacked journals, illegitimate journals, questionable journals

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